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Up here in Canada, there are 7 different threads for hydrants:It seems crazy to me that during a state of emergency, California is inspecting the fire trucks from other states before they'll let them go to the fire.
Imagine your house is on fire, you local fire department calls another department for mutual aid, but you have to wait for your ciry to inspect the other departments fire truck before they'll let it come to your fire.
I think the fact that it made it 100s of miles to help you is good enough, and I highly doubt any FD would send a truck that they weren't 100% confident would do the job.
An Alberta truck can connect to BC, it just leaks. But as the BC hose is larger, it can't connect to Alberta.
Stopping for a few minutes to confirm that the truck had the required threads on their hose/adapters seems worth it, as opposed to getting to the scene and finding out the truck can't connect to the hydrants
I believe USA has more than 10 different threads - Chicago and Phoenix both have 2 within the cities.